12/13 Don't go!" "You're misunderstanding," said I."It's a plain and easy thing--I've nothing to do but ride there and back. And as for the ten pounds, it's just this way: yon Mr.Gilverthwaite has more money than he knows what to do with. He carries sovereigns in his pockets like they were sixpenny pieces! Ten pounds is no more to him that ten pennies to us. And we've had the man in our house seven weeks now, and there's nobody could say an ill word of him." "It's not so much him," she answered. "It's what you may meet--there! For you've got to meet--somebody. |